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The latest figures from the Investment Management Association (IMA) on
investors’ fund purchases make interesting reading.

On the one hand private investors are heeding the repeated warnings from
financial experts that they should be wary of holding too much of their
money in bonds.

After ploughing billions into bonds in recent years investors are now pulling
their money out in large numbers. In June they withdrew a net £624 million
from bond funds - the biggest outflow since records began in 1992.

Corporate bonds suffered the heaviest net outflow (£262 million) of any single
sector, followed by global bonds (£228 million)